Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday expressed concern about “escalating” moves by Chinese navy ships following repeated entries into or near Japanese territorial waters in the past week. On Thursday, the Defense Ministry said a Chinese navy ship sailed into an area near Kitadaito ...

Three Chinese government ships were plying waters around the Senkaku Islands on Thursday, the Japan Coast Guard reported. The maritime surveillance vessels entered the 12-nautical-mile zone regarded as the territorial waters of Uotsurijima, one of the Senkaku islets that Japan controls but China claims ...

Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Monday the government has identified the country whose submarine was detected while submerged the previous day near Okinawa and will call for such encroachments to cease. Onodera did not disclose the country, saying the vessel did not intrude into ...